Entrepreneurship Links

NEW MEDIA ASSOCIATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Digital Media Association: national trade organization devoted primarily to the online audio and video industries, and more generally to commercially innovative digital media opportunities. 

Digital Media Conference: annual conference where leaders in media, entertainment and technology, businesses, investors, and policy-makers involved discuss development in digital distribution of media and entertainment. 

Digital Media Minute: commentary on digital media and internet-based technologies, primarily website design and usability.

Inside Digital Media features interviews with leaders in the digital media industries.

The Masie Center: an international think tank that explores the use of new digital media, for educational purposes. 

New Media Academic Summit: an annual conference of business leaders, academics, journalists, bloggers and communications professionals to discuss the challenges facing universities in preparing the next generation of graduates to work with new digital media. Hosted by Edelman, an independent public relations agency.

New Media Consortium: an international nonprofit consortium of more than 260 organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies to support learning and creative expression.

BLOGS

Craig Saila: discusses online journalism, new media and business issues. Written by Craig Saila, an online journalist and Web developer.

The Digital Edge: the Newspaper Association of America discusses trends in online journalism and lists an “innovation of the month.” 

Media E-Ship Blog: discusses media entrepreneurship. Written by Anne Hoag, a professor at Penn State University. 

Mediashift tracks how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture. Written by journalist Mark Glaser, for PBS.

TechnoSailor: explores the intersection of social media and the internet with business and personal presence, branding and value. Written by a staff of three tech entrepreneurs.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
The top entrepreneurship academic programs, as ranked by Entrepreneurship.com:

Undergraduate Programs
1. Babson College
2. University of Houston
3. Drexel University
4. The University of Arizona
5. University of Dayton 
6. Chapman University
7. DePaul University
8. Temple University
9. University of North Dakota
10. Loyola Marymount University

Graduate Programs
1. University of Southern California
2. Babson College
3. The University of Arizona
4. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
5. DePaul University
6. University of California, Los Angeles
7. Drexel University
8. Chapman University
9. University of South Florida
10. University of Illinois at Chicago